Yearly Archives: 2009

Creating indexable, searchable files with PrimoPDF

As we showed in our last tip, you can easily control the way in which your document is accessed, viewed, and edited by utilizing PrimoPDF’s security settings. Now, we’re going to quickly demonstrate how you can add key information in the form of metadata – such as title, author, and keywords…
Many document management systems that [...]

Securing PDF files with PrimoPDF

PrimoPDF is a great free way to convert nearly any file to PDF for safe, secure, and easy distribution. Many people don’t realize that you can do much more than simply create the PDF file, including adding passwords and restricting permissions to edit, view, print and more…
When you open PrimoPDF, there are two options you [...]

Sharing charts and graphs from Microsoft® Excel

Most of us, in some way or another, tend to use Excel for data collation and visualization. Why do we want to visualize data? Aside from a desire to present it in a meaningful fashion, we generally graph or chart a series of data with a view to distributing it to a wider audience – [...]

PDF as a green technology

PDF is often touted as what’s increasingly known as ‘green technology’ – one that helps us reduce our carbon footprint, and – in the case of the ‘paperless office’ – reduce a financial burden. For most businesses, going completely paperless is definitely a challenge, but with desktop PDF software, we can certainly work towards it.
It’s [...]